Monthly Archives: March 2012

Léon-Gontran Damas, 28 March 1912 – 22 January 1978

By The Public Archive | Published: March 28, 2012
Twenty years before Frantz Fanon had organized the concept of “the colonized personality” into psychoanalytic theory, Pigments, a book of poems published in 1937 by Leon Damas, revealed the anguish of what has come to be known by that term. Ellen Conroy Kennedy, “Leon Damas: Pigments and the Colonized Personality,” Black World/Negro Digest (January 1972) Race, ethnie, [...]
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Aftershocks + Avengers: An interview with Laurent Dubois

By The Public Archive | Published: March 21, 2012
Laurent Dubois is a Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University who is a specialist in the history and culture of France and the Caribbean. His publications include Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804, Soccer [...]
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DETOURS AND DISTANCE: An Interview with J. Michael Dash

By The Public Archive | Published: March 4, 2012
Born in Trinidad, J. Michael Dash is a professor in the Departments of French and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University who has written extensively on Haitian and French Caribbean literature. His publications include Culture and Customs of Haiti (2001), The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (1998), Haiti and [...]
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